Just wait until you taste “Songs You Recorded in High School” 😬
My first musical physical media purchase was Backstreet Boys, but the rest after wasn’t cringe, I swear!
My first album was a cassette dub of License to Ill my friend made in elementary school. My first purchase was Even Worse by Weird Al.
That’s the best first I’ve ever heard. My first tape was Cruisin’ Classics, which was free with a tank of gas from Shell. Thanks mom!
Only because the passage of time declared Backstreet Boys to be no longer a cringe!
They still make me cringe. But now it’s classic cringe.
Oh, Backstreets back alright.
Authentic pirate hip hop is not nearly as bad as it sounds
BROADSIDE! BROADSIDE! Navy boys better run and hide These cannon balls flyin’ atcha when we collide All me mateys be ready to fire a broadside
Hit you with my chasers while you running for your life
Bout to fuck you ship up just like I fucked your wife
Spritsail topsail rigged so you know I got the power
My ship’s the Victory and yours is Mayflower
Pirate Metal is pretty fun occasionally too.
Welp - down the rabbit hole I go!
Saw Alestorm and that was crazy cool.
Name names
I’m the opposite. I go back to high school music and still love it. Better than most things I hear.
Fr, old me had really good taste for music, probably better taste than current me, but I like the weird stuff I listen to now more.
This presupposes there is some music you stopped listening to after high school, Im with you, I still listen to a bunch of that stuff. Some not as often as others, but it brings back memories. I was a metal head though and there was a lot of great 90s metal.
Idk why ppl say the music doesn’t hold up. Foo fighters still rock even though Dave gohl a PoS.
Sigh, I miss the Alternative Music of the 90s and 2000s.
There’s still great stuff out there. It’s just not mainstream, so it’s not gonna fall into our laps - we have to do the legwork and shuffle through the muck if we want more.
Personally, I made the conscious choice to do so last year and it’s been pretty rewarding.
The mainstream is so small and the ocean of music so wide that “not mainstream” is
not*barely a meaningful term.It wasn’t a disparagement. Just explaining why it’s not as seemingly ubiquitous as it once was.
Any recommendations to check out?
I’d say my favs from last year include:
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Cheap Grills by Sincere Engineer (a great energetic, alt rock garage band vibe)
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The Garden Dream by gglum (a moody alt rock album that would’ve fit perfectly on the Juno soundtrack)
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Spiritual Cramps by Spiritual Cramps (a sound that feels simultaneously The Cure-ish, The Clash-ish, and The Ramones-ish)
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Unicorn by Gunship (not an “unknown” band, but this album slaps if you enjoy synthwave at all)
Right on, that all sounds like my jam. Thanks for the tip!
Sure thing! Fwiw, I found most of those just digging through the bandcamp discover page. gglum I heard on KEXP, a great indie radio station based in Seattle who do internet broadcasts. Lots of good stuff coming from them.
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I was at the gym over the weekend and they had a playlist of songs from this era/genre playing over the speakers. One banger after another, brought me back to better times.
Alt music was still banging in the 2013 when i graduated high school. Still some great stuff out there if you lnow where to look.
By Alternative you mean an assortment of punkish rock?
Which is crazy, because originally “alternative” just meant “underground”, i.e. stuff that wasn’t popular. Once it did become popular, though, then it solidified into its own genre
Too bad it’s all recorded at 44.1 kHz and there’s no analog to convert to 88/96kHz.
the songs i listened to on purpose in high school are still awesome. the songs i heard in high school because of radio or mtv or pary or whatever are still just as shit as they were back then
Sorry, I grew up in the great alt rock era ranging from early 90s to late 2000s. So there’s nothing to throw out here. Not even the punk emo anthems or pop summer hits.
Ya’ll don’t like Voltaire and P Diddy anymore? /s
Well, there’s a random combo if I ever heard one.
For me personally those two bring the most cringe value when I suddenly hear them again.
Voltaire is cool, but it just seems a little juvenile now.
I think if Voltaire took himself seriously, then he would be cringe, but it’s clear that he doesn’t.
Some people don’t think that humor belongs in music, and that’s okay. But it’s kind of like calling Weird Al cringe. It makes me think that you don’t understand the artist.
Weird Al doesn’t sing about undead teddy bears, vampires, and the beast of pirates bay. Weird Al sings about being fat, discount groceries, and being stuck in the drive through.
I honestly don’t know what point you’re making here.
You don’t think he’s funny, and that makes you cringe? Okay.
Tastes are subjective and you’re in here questioning the validity of my taste. Perhaps it is you who needs to take a step back, assess your stance, and fuck off.
My first purchase CD was Kenny Fuckin’ G. Sigh. Still, some pretty melodies I guess, and that’s not all bad.
Started improving right away by moving on to a lot of John Williams soundtracks and Weird Al. Then a lot of Classic Rock “best of” albums, including some Southern and Southern-inflected ones (CCR!). Start to fold in some folk music from the British Isles and sellout former college-rock bands (Crash Test Dummies’ first two major-label albums are actually good. Fight me!).
Add one English degree from a southern university and a move to Texas after a leftward political swing during law school (seriously you guys, nothing like seeing how the sausage is made to understand that while important and not without a certain rigor, the law is fucked up and EVERY judge is an activist judge, so you just need to do the right thing), and blammo, you get a dude who is way more into artsy fartsy “Americana” alt-country than your average Lemmy user. Now I want to listen to some Isbell before I go to bed. Good night y’all.
I love the Crash Test Dummies. Give Yourself a Hand is probably my favorite album but I also really like A Worm’s Life. Their records are all so different from each other too, which is nice because their sound evolved but remained recognizable.
I’m pretty basic. I liked The Ghosts That Haunt Me and God Shuffled His Feet the best, and unironically enjoy almost every single track on both albums. Once they started drifting away from that wry and/or jaunty folk-pop-rock, I wasn’t as interested, but I can appreciate that Brad in particular wanted to explore other ground and give his lyrical notions more space to breathe.
Oh I also enjoy both of those albums a lot, especially Here I Stand Before Me and Comin’ Back Soon.
It says “high school”, why are you all talking about songs from the 2010s?
…oh no…
Most (but not all) music has something to recommend it. If you don’t like entire eras of music it’s not because the music is “bad,” it’s because it’s not to your taste anymore (or, for stuff you didn’t listen to, never was).
Much like with food, if you can find what makes a particular genre enjoyable and listen for that, you can enjoy a lot more. I would never listen to Taylor Swift the same way I listen to Rush or Pink Floyd, but I still loved Midnights. I wouldn’t listen to Bach the same way I listen to Nightwish, but they’re both fantastic.
There’s nothing wrong with being discerning in your tastes. But there’s also nothing wrong with the styles of music you don’t like, it’s just a different flavor. I don’t like cilantro and never will, but I understand why people do. And I didn’t like coffee until I learned how to taste it properly. The same is true of music.
Our names be similar like whaaaat
You’re not the first fellow TheReal<Something> I’ve found in the wild, but it always makes me do a double-take. 😃
Where’s the real Slim Shady? Can he please stand up? Please stand up? Please stand up?
I listened to a lot of somewhat niche cringiest punk and red dirt country bands (odd combo i know but I was a confused teen) in high-school. Like bands that know on has heard of, no I’m not bragging these bands were just that awful. But I was young and HAD to be different and some of the songs would make me cringe so hard now that my soul may leave my body if listened to. You’re right about one thing my music tastes changed drastically
Speak for yourself, I’ve still got a running list of early morning songs that’d play on the school bus radio from highschool.
The stuff I used to listen to as a teenager, I now listen to when I’m drunk because they are some banging pops
It’s just I do love me my black/death metal when I’m sober
This reminds me of having the opposite experience, hearing a Joni Mitchell song I probably hadn’t heard in 15 years - she had been a favorite musician of my gf’s way back when. The opening notes took me straight back in time - mentally I was heading over to her place, feeling that same age, feeling all the same feelings. Very surreal experience. This was the first time I realized how much rich detail we store in our brains. It was like I had quantum-leaped back into my teenage body. I listened to some more Joni Mitchell songs to recapture the effect, but it got weaker every time - by a lot - the dropoff was very distinct.
